Games like HIVESWAP: ACT 2
If HIVESWAP: ACT 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trips'n'Traps - A Vicious Odyssey, Grayton the Detective and Once Again — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its strong homestuck universe expansion, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Players who liked HIVESWAP: ACT 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into HIVESWAP: ACT 2 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Trips'n'Traps - A Vicious Odyssey
WHY THIS
Top pick for HIVESWAP: ACT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
An AI controls the world. Seven dissident friends, not very bright, meet every day at the park. But one day, our protagonist wakes up… with no memory. Her friends have disappeared. Where have they gone? What does the AI want? And why is our protagonist a Rat Girl?
Grayton the Detective
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for HIVESWAP: ACT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Grayton the Detective is a narrative adventure game about a homeless man who once lived in wealth and comfort, now showers with a kettle, and solves petty mysteries on the streets of Cleveland. However, with the disappearance of mysterious Golden Spoon, everything may change.
Once Again
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for HIVESWAP: ACT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Leila
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Ranked #4 for HIVESWAP: ACT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face. Solve story-driven puzzles, relive fragile memories, and discover a deeply personal journey that may feel more familiar than you expect.
The Last Days of Reason
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for HIVESWAP: ACT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
A mini-adventure by Poki (known for Dünnes Eis, Deponia, Edna Breaks Out) that takes you back to the time of Aristotle and shortly before the end of Attic democracy. You play Nikki, who wants to be the first woman to be accepted at the Lyceum.
Death Comes Skiing
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for HIVESWAP: ACT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
When a retired cross-country ski team meets to celebrate their past victories, the past soon catches up to them. It's up to you to make sense of the slaughter that follows in this comedic point-and-click murder mystery.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Ranked #7 for HIVESWAP: ACT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Lord Winklebottom Investigates
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Ranked #8 for HIVESWAP: ACT 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
It’s the 1920s and the world’s foremost detective is about to embark on his most challenging case yet. Thankfully, in this world that’s not quite like our own, there’s nobody better to crack the case than the great detective and gentleman giraffe, Lord Winklebottom.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below HIVESWAP: ACT 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under HIVESWAP: ACT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under HIVESWAP: ACT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under HIVESWAP: ACT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under HIVESWAP: ACT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under HIVESWAP: ACT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under HIVESWAP: ACT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under HIVESWAP: ACT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under HIVESWAP: ACT 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from What Pumpkin Games, Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by What Pumpkin Games, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
HIVESWAP: ACT 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Another title from What Pumpkin Games, Inc., the studio behind HIVESWAP: ACT 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
A hand-drawn tribute to hilarious '90s adventure games (with none of the accompanying frustration). Play as Joey Claire, a puzzle-solving teen snatched out of her time (1994) and place (Earth) and stranded on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion.
Pesterquest
WHY THIS
Another title from What Pumpkin Games, Inc., the studio behind HIVESWAP: ACT 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Embark on a quest of epic importance in Pesterquest, a grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck / Hiveswap universe, created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie.
Hiveswap Friendsim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Another title from What Pumpkin Games, Inc., the studio behind HIVESWAP: ACT 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
You’ve crash landed on a dangerous alien planet with no food, medicine, or prospects, but you do know one thing—you are absolutely desperate for friendship.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Once Again
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Lord Winklebottom Investigates
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.
It’s the 1920s and the world’s foremost detective is about to embark on his most challenging case yet. Thankfully, in this world that’s not quite like our own, there’s nobody better to crack the case than the great detective and gentleman giraffe, Lord Winklebottom.
Frequently asked about HIVESWAP: ACT 2
- Does HIVESWAP: ACT 2 run on Steam Deck?
- HIVESWAP: ACT 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does HIVESWAP: ACT 2 cost?
- HIVESWAP: ACT 2 is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to HIVESWAP: ACT 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HIVESWAP: ACT 2 are Trips'n'Traps - A Vicious Odyssey, Grayton the Detective, Once Again.
- Who developed HIVESWAP: ACT 2?
- HIVESWAP: ACT 2 was developed by What Pumpkin Games, Inc..
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